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the mixed border in conjunction with perennials, as a part of 
the colour scheme described in the chapter on “ Beautifying 
the Garden,” then the subjoined list will fit in with such 
requirements : Agnes Derby, sulphur-yellow ; Agnes Kay, 
white, edged with heliotrope ; Coronation, purple ; David Lloyd 
George, dark crimson ; Helen Smellie, white and blue ; Lady 
Knox, primrose-yellow ; McAlpine’s White, pure white; Mrs. R. 
Ellis, French grey and heliotrope; Mrs. C. Milligan, ivory- 
white; Mrs. Robinson, pink; Mrs. E. Turnbull, black; Mary 
Burnie, white, edged with heliotrope ; Prelate, dark purple ; 
Lizzie Bruce, lemon-yellow ; Mrs. W. McQueen, yellow, edged 
with lavender; Meg Blair, deep orange; Moseley Wonder, rose, 
marbled with white ; and Moseley Perfection, deep yellow. 
Violetta or Miniature Violas. — This is a race of 
plants of which at present comparatively little is known. 
It originated in the garden of the late Dr. Stewart, of Chirn- 
side, N.B., who succeeded in crossing a garden pansy with 
Viola cornuta. The progeny of this cross gave us a very 
beautiful little ravless flower, borne on long stems, and deve- 
loped on plants with a beautifully compact and procumbent 
habit, and was named by the raiser “Violetta.” This is the 
first plant of the new type recognised as being of any value, 
and being a particularly good one was regarded as an excellent 
type for the new race to be built upon. Little was done for 
years after this, except occasionally a keen enthusiast enriched 
our collections with one or two new varieties, each of which 
had a charm peculiarly its own, and which, when properly 
grown and in proper quarters, seldom failed to create a most 
delightful effect, and to please those whose good fortune it 
is to possess them. 
Violettas are specially well adapted for the rock garden, 
where, if planted in colonies of about half-a-dozen plants in 
each, they will in the course of the season form a dense crop of 
growth, and from April onwards give a most delightful display 
and make the rock garden a place of beauty when most of the 
other subjects are past their best. The constitution of most 
of them is robust, and their dense and tufted habit of growth, 
in some cases, being beautifully spreading, yet delightfully 
dwarf, makes them specially well suited for the rock garden 
and similar positions. Unlike the more rampant-growing, 
large-flowered Violas, these plants may be cut back at the end 
of their flowering season to quickly develop a beautiful tuft 
of consideiable size, and, provided the ground is well mulched 
with a good and lasting manure, these plants may remain in 
the same position two or three years in succession, in which 
case they increase in size, and their display is even more 
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